Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-09
SNAKE-BITTEN.
Asap OCCURRENCE KYAg RALEIGH
N. G.
Tie Tobacco convention-The Agricultu.
raj nterost-Beavy Rains Fatal
Aifray-A Drummer's Case.
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RALEioH. August S.--There was a
very distressing occurrence in this
county to-day. While n little daugh-
ter of Rev. u. =. Meacham was play
ipg in the yard of his house she
saw snake and fearlessly approached
II, not knowing what IL was. In few
minutes she screamed, and it was found
the snake had bitten her. Physicians
were sent for, but it is thought the In
jury is fatal.
THE TOBACCO CONVENTION.
The Tobacco Association to-day OK
tended general invitation 30 the press
Of The state TO be present at the To-
baccO Convention Mt MOrebead City on
the 18th. II IS stated that not less than
three hundred dealers and others in
tercsted in tobacco will be present.
To day an excursion party number
ing eight hundred arrived here from
Norfolk.
Charles l.. Carson, an architect of
baltimore, was today employed by the
Executive Committee Of the Aericultu-
raj ard Mechanical College to prepare
plans for the buildings, to cost $50, 900.
IT u said by Chairman Primrose that
the iute ntion is TO erect these Just as
rapidly IS funds will permit.
To-day, near Goldsboro', two negro
scctiou-hards on the North Carolina
railroad had a Sight, in the course Of
which one smashed the skull of the
other with . crowbar.
Statc-Auditor Roberts left for New
York to-day 10 complete arrangements
about heating the Capitol and the other
public buildings.
AGRICULTURAL.
Commissioncr-ot-Agricul,ure Robin
son addressed large audience of farm
eTs At Neaycrville, Buncombo county,
Saturday. To-day he went to Mount
Holly. and viii remain there the re-
mainder Of the week attending the
State convention OF farmers. A great
number Of people went TO Mount Holly
to-day, among them Changers from all
parts OF the State. The attendance
promises to be fully "a large as was e1-
T,Ctod.
Parties arrived here to-day who for
four days had been waterbound in Pitt
county section. They report tho waters
rs now skating, but say thousands of
acres 81 crop. are ruined.
Rains fell from Raleigh eastward to-
day. There were very heavy rains last
night. The weather has turned con-
sidcrably cooler.
Travel on the Carolina Central rail-
way beyond Shelby is yet partially in
tcrrupied. Trains are caught between
vashOuts. Transfers are made with
care and rromptness, and much skill
Inns been shown in management during
the trouble
Great interest 10 shown in the drum
mcI 's-hceusc case at Edenton, wherein
henderson. a Baltimore commercial
tourist, figures. He is in custody at
Idcnlon. having by the advice of the
travellers Protective Association sur
rendered himself. Judge Bond will
bear the case in the Federal court
Isttle & Mordecai, of Raleigh. APP
pear for the State, and ". ID. Pruden
Tor Henderson. This is the tost-case to
settle the question OF drummer's Ii
ccrsos in North Carolina.
Reports have been circulated in re-
gard to the sale of fertilizers i'll this
State without license. Your CORE
spondent Was to-day informed at the
Department Of Agriculture that such is
not the fact One section of tho Code
expressly saws that no fertilizer can be
sold on offered for sale III the State
without license. If the attempts made
to sell or offer them for sale they can
be seized. Another section of the Code
expressly requires railways to make
returns in regard to fertilizers trans
uofted by them, and also to state IN
such returns who are the cOnsignors and
corsicnees. SO it will be seen that the
SIT, las very rigorous and compre-
lepsive legislation on that subject.
The Richmond aud Danvllle railroad
is specially DESTROYS Of securing tho eI-
tension OF the railway from Oxford to
Durham, and earnest work III that Ill
reciion has been done. Colonel A. H.
Andrews WAS in conference with MIR.
Julian :. Carr and other prominent
men AZ Durham to-day.
There is "a good zeal OF talk about
the action OF the Board of Aldermen
of this city in prohibiting tho sale OF
cigarettes containing "immoral pc
iures or photographs. 1t is difficult TO
draw the line. The photographs are
those of actresses in AL styles Of dress
and undress but it will puzzle a Phila-
delphia lawyer to separate the good
from the bad The general sentiment
is against the sale Of the photographs
in this way, for your correspondent
cnn state, as result OF personal OBJ
scrvation, that the photographs are
eagerly sought by boys who do not
even smoke. aud buy the cigarette
packages muck in the way in which
thew would ticket in lottery. Only
one paper in all the State has defended
the use Of the photographs III this
way.
One of the largest landowners IN
North Carolina is o Sir. Vance, OF Mem
pLis, Tenn. At recent sale at More
head City he purchased the long strip
OF land known as Boguo banks. 1t eX-
tends all the way from Fort Macon,
rear Reaufort. To Bogue inlet, dis
lance of twenty-five miles. In some
plac,s il is mile or even two miles III
Width. Only SJ0l was paid for all tAis
tonitorv. On il are three porpoise.-
fisheries. which will yield thousands OF
dollars. and one third OF their product
goes to the lucky purchaser oil TINS
vast tract.
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